Can you save your spaceship in time in the Escheresque point and click puzzle game improbability engine? Created by Aurel for the 'deeper and deeper' themed Ludum Dare 48 game jam.
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Yeah.. liked the first part, but don't start this one if you don't know how to solve a rubix cube... Stuck on that part..
I can't get past the 2nd one where you rotate the 12 blocks???
I also got stuck on the Rubik's cube part.
I'm afraid I never liked Rubik's cube and having just 2 movements (the other two are just the opposite directions) is very stressing. So I'll leave it here ^^u
@Yu, me too - it seemed like it would be a good game up to that part. But the Rubik's cube thing is too annoying.
I can solve a cube fairly easily, however I found this cube harder being restricted to only two sides - I also gave up at this point, a shame I liked it up to there.
Same boat as everybody else. Hit a wall at the Rubik's cube. Blech.
I'm in the engine, but I'm stuck on the third grid. I'll wait for the walkthrough to get released. Wake me up when it happens.
Managed to solve the Rubik's cube. Focusing on solving the red side helped. But the game immediately ends after that puzzle, so you all aren't missing anything.
It was creepy, I didn't wanna finish it...
More cutscene than game, so far.
I'm completely mystified by the pipe puzzles. I have to be missing a mechanic.
I was having trouble with the pipe puzzles until I realized the left and right sides connect. I think with all three of them the solution I found involved pointing a pipe towards the left or right side, and having the filling show up on the opposite side of the puzzle. (This doesn't work with the top and bottom though.)
I'm completely lost on the Rubik's cube at the end. I've managed to get all the red tiles lined up correctly a few times, but then the other two tiles are off and trying to fix it just undoes everything.
Listen, I LOVE rubik's cubes, even pulled mine out to try and help me, but honestly the only outside knowledge I ended up using was a single algorithm. I'm still not 100% sure how I did it, but this was my basic thought process:
1) get all of the pieces in their correct positions. orientation doesn't matter for this part
2) now you're going to start and use the one and only algorithm that matters here: 42314231. This is going to keep all of the pieces in position while rotating them. Note that the piece in the far back (with only orange) and the piece in the bottom front (red and yellow) will not be affected by this move. Consider these positions "protected"
3) play around using that algorithm! you can rotate the cube however you want to put different pieces in the "protected" positions, but make sure you take note of the moves you make to do so you can reverse it afterwards (for example, if you do 332 before the algorithm, you should do 144 afterwards). Note that doing the algorithm 3 times without any other rotations will just put the cube back to where you started (since each piece only has 3 possible orientations).
4) Like someone else said, focusing on the red side really helped me. The first thing I did was orient that back corner orange piece, put it back in its protected spot, and then I focused on solving the red side. When I ended up with all the pieces correct except for 2, I pulled that orange piece out again, messed with it, put it back in the correct orientation and position, then tried to solve red again. Really, this step just involves a lot of trial and error.
optional: take note of which direction each piece rotates when you do this algorithm. might help you solve it faster.
hope this helps!
update from the same anon as before: I found what I believe to be the simplest solution to the Rubik's cube problem:
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